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Great trip there you had, Sunil.

WoW..fantastic pictures..cool

Looks like you had a good field day. So many of them in one trip!!!

Nice Trip log. Enjoyed watching the photographs. Would like to see more of Road Photographs...

Tempting curves...and some nice pics...looks like u guys enjoyed...

nice pics.especially of the gaur

Nice Travalogue.
No.it won't work that way.For a acre of land ,you can have only maximum 200 rubber trees with a gap of 12-15 feet needed.

Good set of third eyes + awesome scenaries = Quality photography of yours.
Do you've any sunset pictures from your trip? I love them, I love watching the sunset in Kerala, no matter where I'm.

I think you're right. To make 18K in a day you need huge hectare of land.

sunil Tussi great Ho..tohfa kabul karo

Beautiful pics to start the day.The quality this time is down but the variety is definitely more.
I than read about the setting thing

I think this is the grey babbler (only a guess though)



Ruofus treepie OR Malabar Trogon

difficult to identify from the given set.But i belive it's the treepie.

& the new looking comet --Super Killer

Absolutely beautiful & wonderful. To be frank i was never aware of such species of Birds. I dont know but how you have manage/remember all the names.. anyway good work done, eye candies for sure...

gr8 pics der sunil...thnx for posting...

Thanks Guys.


Special Thanks to prakash_mvpa
for his PM & correction of phone numbers, without which booking the hotel stay would have been very difficult.


The second half is here:


On Sunday 17th Jan 2009 we went in to the sanctuary & fond very less birds ot even 10% of YTD, came back had food Shower & left the place, that day night we reached Coimbatore @ 4:30 & stayed in Hotel Tami nadu, did some local shopping for export rejected shirts etc ...
Had nice dinner @ annapornashwari,

The next day Monday 18th We left early in the morning for Bangalore, Had our breakfast at Sty, then chose to go via Saty to Nangan gude,


Satamangalam forest in the morning & 27 Hare pin curves while climbing up were Awesome .




Our rides parked in one of the initial climbe U turnes .






This is the Next set of feast 27 ones like this, they weren't this good the last time, Newly laid White lined curve up Saty



How we took the curves?

Vaidee :









Raju:













Me:



















its Anybodies guess about the next pic ...



























































You guessed it wrong, Well, if you thought I will get way with it, you are either insane or know me bloody well





Lovely misty road we rode, worth the extra miles & time lost w.r.t the 4 lane road via Hosure



My Cousin full of JOY





A Break to soak in the beauty & get a glimpse for you guys










Vaidee's Tyre




Rajus FZ Tyre:





My Micheline pilot Roar 2c2







More pics of the 3 Rides:










The FZ has Lovely CG, Enough Torque for solo ride, Great Handling, Breaking & don't worry to fill up often.







Twin Sisters, There was a time when it was hard to distinguish My & Vaidee's bike. Only the sticker on our frame were different Now look at them







PS My Bro was wondering How the heck the bikes look so clean While returning from the trip on the last day !!!
Thanks to Clonin Wips & Motule chain lube that was used every 200 kms or so to keep the chain intact & Avoid the dust caught between tank bag & tank scratch the tank.

Vaidee's Ride:










My Ride SPIRIT:












It started to rain slightly & we were forced to pack soon




More birds @ top of Saty KAR -TN Border



a flock of Plum heads










The route down Saty was too good too, long wide open newly laied Tar road, I was at 3 digit speeds most of the time, generally down a ill I dont go fast but the curves were tooo wide & no trafic, it was really tooo good.
Like the clime & down of Saty more then Nalumbure Yellow lined curves or at least found them equally good.

Some pilicons on a lake

















Vaidee on The border




Reached Home at around 5:30 pm.

What a Ride, Surely memorable.

Thanks to Vaidee & Raju for such a good company Riding in perfect discipline & formation.
Appreciate Mine, Vaidee's & Raju's Wife's Understanding, The Need to Quench both Rider come Birder's Thirst within.
Thank God for no unvary incidents at all.

Cheers
Sunil

nice trip guys
Your comet looks really nice.

ha!! what a trip !! Kudus...

I too need a converter for my nikon + sigma 270mm lens.. any suggestions ?